Opera community watch

We've seen many interesting blog posts and photos shared during summer. Discussions in the forums has also been heated — as always. Here are some of the highlights we'd like to share with you:

Blogs & photos

• Violetisha decided to make some really cool avatars for the community. Maybe if you ask nicely, she'll do one of you, too?
• Popularity can be measured in many ways. Coxy is popular on Flickr because of his photo of Nina Kitty.
• 365 is a popular photo sharing group on My Opera. They've just started voting for best picture in July, and you can of course have a look at all the great photos.
• What has Mick planned for his arm? You can now vote for your favourite guess and read more about it in his blog.

Discussions

• Do you have a feature request for My Opera? Take part in the wish-list forum thread Tamil created some time ago.
• Encountered sites that block Opera or are not standards compliant? Take part in the discussion in our "Open the Web & Take Action" forum.
• User "dib" is wondering what ever happened to Opera spoofing other browsers?
• In the Opera for Mac forum we have a new user who asks: "Opera, still a bit confusing?" What are your thoughts on the subject?

Opera

• We released 9.52 today, which addresses several security and stability issues. You can read more about this release and find download links and changelogs in the desktop team blog.
• We got a new edition of our state of the Mobile Web report. We can conclude with Opera Mini usage soars globally as we spotlights the top sites in Latin America. Visit our mobile browsing report site for more information.
• An interesting article attempts to create the big picture future for Opera Mini. This article comes from the social blog site Mashable! and not the more computer oriented sites we're usually featured on.
• Wondering what happened to our refresh all keyboard shortcut? Look no further, here are all of the changes in keyboard shortcuts between Opera 9.23 and 9.50.